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• FORD ENGINEERS IMITATE HUMAN TOUCH THROUGH A ROBOT NAMED RUTH

  
  AutoNewscast.com — Authority: 142
  FORD ENGINEERS IMITATE HUMAN TOUCH THROUGH A ROBOT NAMED RUTH To energize dull, lifeless interiors, Ford Motor Company has developed a secret weapon: A robot known as RUTH – short for Robotized Unit for Tactility and Haptics. DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 16, 2009 – Human touch is highly subjective and complex, making ...
  2 days ago

• Squeeze, Grip and Tilt to Control Synaptics’ Concept Phone

  
  Gadget Lab — Authority: 767
  Touchscreens have become a big hit among cellphone users. But what’s next after tap to click and the two-finger pinch and zoom? Synaptics’ Fuse experimental phone shows a device that you can interact with by squeezing, gripping, flexing and tilting the phone. The device melds multiple technologies such as ...
  4 days ago

• Synaptics shows true full-touch phone design with TAT UI

  
  WMPoweruser.com — Authority: 151
  Synaptics today introduced Fuse™, a collaborative mobile phone concept, demonstrating the future of user interaction for handsets. Integrating for the first time multiple interface technologies—including multi-touch capacitive sensing, haptic feedback, 3-D graphics, and force, grip, and proximity sensing—the ...
  4 days ago

• Mind-controlled prosthetic hand

  
  grinding.be — Authority: 422
  From Yahoo! News : An Italian who lost his left forearm in a car crash was successfully linked to a robotic hand, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts, scientists said Wednesday. During a one-month experiment conducted last year, 26-year-old Pierpaolo ...
  2 weeks ago

• Feeling the Way: Haptics for Blind People

  
  Workplace Learning Today by Brandon Hall Research — Authority: 142
  A robotic device developed at MIT allows persons with visual impairments to feel their way around a virtual environment, much like they would with using a cane in the real world. This allows blind people to practice moving around in a 3D space that is a replica of somewhere they want to go, so they become familiar ...
  3 weeks ago

• Amazon, John Lewis and the magazine business model

  
  MagBlog — Authority: 116
  Consider the following, taken from a feature about online shopping by David Teather in yesterdays Guardian : The likes of Amazon and Asos are facing increasing competition from the high-street brands, many of which are beginning to take online retailing more seriously. When John Lewis launched its website in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics

  
  grinding.be — Authority: 422
  Scientists of the University of Pennsylvania are creating electronics that almost completely dissolve inside the body, through the use of thin, flexible silicon electronics on silk substrates. While implanted electronics must usually be encased to protect them from the body, these electronics don’t need protection. ...
  4 weeks ago

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